One of the greatest challenges in the career of a pilot beginning and undoubtedly as one of the main efforts as it will have to deploy to prove as it has the talent necessary to take part in the competitions of equal to equal with any adversary - consists in obtaining the financial support which will open the doors of a team to him forming part of the elite of world motoring.

The sponsor of Bardahl was decisive so that I can arrive in F1 at the wheel of Minardi. When I turned to Indy in 1995, much of people considered this very risky gesture, but it is what enabled me to dispute the first places again of international category, and I had the chance to have once again the unconditional support of Bardahl which, like my family, has a tradition of motor races, since several generations were devoted there.

Christian Fittipaldi